It S A Hard Life Wherever You Go lyrics

I am a back-seat driver from America
They drive to the left on Falls Road
The man at the wheel`s name is Seamus
We pass a child on the corner he knows
And Seamus says, `Now what chance has that kid got?`
And I say from the back, `I don`t know`
He says, `There`s barbed wire at all of these exits:
and there ain`t no place on Belfast for that kid to go`
***It`s a hard life, It`s a hard life, It`s a very hard life
It`s a hard life wherever you go***
If we poison our children with hatred
Then the hard life is all that they`ll know
A cafeteria line in Chicago
The fat man in front of me
Is calling black people trash to his children
....he`s the only trash here I see
And I`m thinking this man wears a white hood
In the night when his children should sleep
But, they`ll slip to their window and they`ll see him
And they`ll think that white hood`s all they need
If I`d been a child in the sixties
When dreams could be held through TV
With Disney, and Cronkite, and Martin Luther
Oh, I`d believe, I`d believe, I`d believe
Now, I am the back-seat driver from America
And I am not at the wheel of control
I am guilty, I am war and I am the root of all evil
Lord, and I can`t drive on the left side of the road
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